In case you're wondering, yes, this is what happened to me last Friday. And yes, these were my actual words to my brother (who responded in laughter).

After 10 minutes of opening the apparently broken disc tray (which was fine before), and over an hour of installation (including opening the tray another two times), the game tells me my laptop isn't up to scratch.

I know it's probably my fault for not checking before I bought it, but I'm still going to go ahead and blame my brother.